Looks like some students went the simpler route

Sometimes the simplest solution is the best. Go students!

Looks like some students went the simpler route, and just tour down the "biological men" and "biological women" signs on their dorm bathrooms.

Good for them. Such fucking bullshit.

I am so effing proud of those students that I don't know! Go you (all)!

Good for them!

The sun came out for most of today, in a gloriously blue sky. I felt irrationally joyful for most of the day, in spite of all the everything. I figured I might as well enjoy it, since tamping it down wasn’t going to help anything.

Good news and bad news on the HD basketball front in DH's world today. The good news is that the girls varsity team is going to state. He and many of the boys try and make a practice of going to the girls games to cheer them on. It was a wonderful game tonight. He filmed it to have reel footage for the girls.

The horrible news is that I had to try to find some comforting words as he is not doing well with the latest decrees from TFG. Over 500,000 Haitians will have their work permits revoked and are supposed to be deported by August as their protective status has been revoked. Because obviously, Haiti is a super safe place to return to now. We have a huge Haitian population here. Maybe 75% of his basketball players are Haitian. They work incredibly hard on both their studies and athletics to get scholarships and a chance at a better life. We don't know what is going to happen to them and the feeling of helplessness is overwhelming. They are his children. Other locals not involved with high schools are in a panic about what is going to happen to our healthcare system. A huge percentage of our healthcare workers are Haitian here. It is just such a mess.

eta: I asked Brendon how many of the boys came to the girls' game and he said ALL of them. I am so proud of them supporting their fellow student athletes.

Oh, Laura, that's so awful. The pain, fear, upheaval and just plain cruelty of every damn thing they are doing, top to bottom, is so fucking contemptible.

On an utterly separate note...

Happy Birthday, Laura! Wishing you a wonderful year ahead, and I hope you enjoy the day today.

Thank you, Jen! It's lovely so far. My first morning texts were from old friends I haven't seen in years.

On a more amusing note for being 71 my first few birthday emails were from Silver Sneakers, XL Physical Therapy, and 2 dermatology offices. Better was Broward County Library's greeting. I didn't know they knew my birthday.

Happy birthday Laura.